Press

Tiny Mix Tapes, Video Premier: “Make Way for the Mane of Spit and Nails”“Inundating you with a cozy dose of soft sci-fi futurism is Free World Music by Brooklyn’s Rick Parker and Dali’s Li Daiguo, a randomly collided pair of quantum radicals sitting at a similar alt-world-classical tilt.”

The Wire, August 2016 “Bites: Pipa Dreams” [Li has] found his own voice on the instrument, pushing its sonic capabilities beyond anything that’s been previously attempted on it”

All About Jazz“Entertaining, different and expertly played, it is yet another new direction for creative music.”- Karl Ackerman

The Observer: July’s Best Avant-Garde Concerts (2016)“Free World Music, a daring set of free-improv noisescapes fitting of its title”

Secret Decoder premiers track from Free World Music“On “A Steady Heartbeat is the Sound of Death,” the duo draws from jazz, krautrock, and science fiction. A strangely motorik bassline makes way for a caterwauling trombone before Parker’s synthesizer begins its coy, technosirenic ascent to the sonic forefront. The first synthesizer notes are electrifying – pun fucking intended – and make for an especially riveting album closer.”

Performance at Philadelphia’s First Banana selected as a Top 10 Gig of 2014!“Exciting new sounds off China- based Daiguo’s cello merged brilliantly with Parker’s trombone and electronic effects. Hard to fathom this was only their second gig.” – Ken Weiss, Cadence Magazine

Interview with The Key WXPN PhiladelphiaRick Parker and Li Daiguo Bring Global Jazz to the First Banana“The sounds that the two create together are uncategorizable, a fluid blend of past and future, traditional and modern. They move from the ambient to the abstract, with folk-like acoustics colliding strangely with sci-fi electronics.” by Shaun Brady